Means for repairing punctured pneumatic tires.



NITED OTIS HUGH STEWART,

OF lMIDDLEPORT, OHIO.

CABINET FOR sHEn m/iusuo.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 725,170, dated April 14, 1903.

Application filed January 30, 1902. Serial No. 91,837. No model-l a patent issued to me on January 7, 1902, and

intended for use to store papers in form of sheets and folios-like sheet-music, for instance. The present invention contemplates certain improvements and changes of construction as against the device described in this previous patent. In said device it was the object to constructsuch a cabinet in a manner to be of easy, convenient, and ready access and at the same time be provided with means to close the same securely to protect its contents against dust, such closing to be attained without using hinged or swinging members like lids or doors, thus avoiding the obstruction they would form by taking up space or becoming otherwise objectionable while opened out. With this object in view a sectional or flexible cover or'sheet was used, forming when closed a part of the inclosing sides of the cabinet and supported in a manner to permit opening: by means of a sliding movement. The cabinet was, furthermore, so arranged and constructed with the means used as to be particularly fitted as to size and shape for the intended. purpose and to inclose the designated articles in the most advantageous, practical, and economical manner, so as to avoid all loss of space and undue increase in size.

This present invention relates to improvements and changes in the construction of the means for supporting the sliding cover.

It further relates to new means for inter nally bracing such a cabinet, and it finally relates to such details of construction as are incidentally due to the features first mentioned.

In the following specification and particularly pointed out in the claims following, is found a full description of the invention, together with its manner of use, parts, and construction, which latter is also illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front view of such a cabinet partly open and portions broken away. Fig. 2 is a horizontalsection of the cabinet between its top and bottom. Fig. 3 is a vertical 1ongitudinal section of it between its sides. Fig. 4 is .an enlarged detail view showing a part of the outer side of one of the sides near one of the-upper corners, it showing at the same time a modified construction. Fig. 5 is an enlarged sectional detail view of the preceding figure, showing also a further modification.

The cabinet consists, primarily, of two sides 10 10, connected to each other by means internally bracing the cabinet and which means may also serve to support part or all of the intended contents. These means may be a shelf or bottom 11, upon which the contents are piled or stacked up, or a number of such shelves may be used, as shown at 11 in Fig. 5, thus furnishing a possibility to arrange and assort the contents. Near the upright rear edges of the sides they may be connected by a vertically-disposed brace member 12, which, particularly in the form shown in Figs. 1 to 3, is of advantage as providing additional means to increase the stability of the cabinet. As will be seen, there are no permanently-connected front, top, or rear sides to this cabinet, and such members are all contained in a flexible cover formed by a number of parallel-arranged strips or cleats 13, connected to each other along their inner longer edges by'means of articulated joints. In practice this cover may be constructed by providing asheet of belting or canvas 14, upon whichthese strips are secured. The width of the cover, or what is the equivalent, the length of the strips of which it is composed, is such as to enable them to reach fully'over the edges of the sides, and they carry projections 15, all of equal size,.forming guide-pieces which occupy and are fitted into grooves 16 in the outer surface of the sides near their edges thereof and parallel thereto. As shown in Figs. 1 to 3, these grooves are in the edges of the sides, and in the forms shown in Figs. 4

k i-w-n 1 e n a l i r ill lTllARLES ll. kil 'l ltlN, OF DAYTbN, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TU hi. lilECHMi'il l AND HARVEY SNELL, OF UNION,

MEANS FQR REPAlRiNG PUNQTUREQ PNEUWLWWQ "i'iliiiifi.

SPECIFZGATIQN forming part of Letters Patent Not 72 3, 3.?1, dated fiiprii lei, i903.

\ Application filed June l4,'1902.

Serial No. 111,636. (No model.)

.il'u rtZZ who/it it iii/rig concern.-

l-ie it known that I, CHARLES R. SUTTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio,'have invented new and useful In proveinents in Means for Repairing Iunc tured Pneumatic Tires, of which the foliow ing is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements-in to means for repai ing punctured pneumatic tires; and its novelty, utility, and practical advantages will be fully understood from the following description and claims, when taken in conjunction with the accoinpenyingdrawr5 ings, in Which- Figure 1 is a sectional view illustrating the first step incident to the repair of a punc tured pneumatic tire with the aid of my improved devices and in accordance'with my to invention; Figs. 2 and 3, sectional views illustrating the second and third steps, -respe'ctively, in the making of the repair; Fig, 4, e

detail view of the plug: employed in making the repair; and Figs. 5, 3, and 7, detail views of the tuhe, awi, and push-rod, respectively,

of my improvements.

Similar letters of reference designate coi respondirr, parts in all of the several views of the drawings, referring to which- A is a pneumatic tire; B, a plug of rubber or other suitable material provided with a head LL, which is conical, and also with a cord b; t}, a tube of? metal or other suitable ma- 7 terial having an interior shoulder c and also having a flat handle-flange I at its outer end,

an exterior shoulder c at an intermediate point of its length, and an cxteriorly-tapered inner end j, i), an uwl having a flat handleflangc at its outer end and a shoulder g at 40 an intermediate point of its longthand also having a conical point. It at its inner end designed to project beyond the tapered end fof tube U, Fig. l; and E,a-1 )ush-ro l having a ring or other suitable handle 6 at its outer end and u conical cup at its inner end, as

snow-n.

in repairing a. punctured tire with my inipro vcd devices the tube (1 and awl D in the relative positions shown in Fig. l are insert- 5 0 ed in the puncture until the shouldcrcof the tube brings up against the When the tube and awl are thus placed in the puncture,

it will be observed that by virtue of the choral der g abutting against shoulder o the point it forms a continuation of the teperjof the tube, and consequently there is no linbility of the ruhheror textile'iehric oi the tire being out, torn, or otherwise injured. On the other hand, the awl-poin't and tube site ply pass between and separate threads of the do febric end stretch the rubber, in come quenoethe puncture is not enlarged, which is an important advent-ego, perticulsrly when the tire being repaired is 03? the heuvy unto mobile type. After the tube is pieced, us 6';

stated, in the puncture the curl D with drawn enticement is suitably supplied to the inner side of the tire eround the puncture through the tuhe. Cement is then pieced. on the inner side of the heed of the plug B, and 7c the plug is inserted stein foremost in the mine and forced, through the medium of the rod E and after the manner shown in Fig.2, through the tube and into the tire. Incident to such forcing of the plug throughthe tuhe g5 C the cupj of the push-rod engages the'apex oi the cone-shaped plughesclc, end in consequence the head is'enehled to fold heck betiveen the cnpjy' and the welilof the hor e; From this it follows thetjneid; ntto its to sage through the tnbethe-pln-gie stretched or increased in length, fend consequently its diameter or thickness is diminished. This is materially advantageous, since it permits of the, introduction through a comparatively 35 smell tube, and one that does not enierge the puncture, of a large plug calculated to assist materially in the melting of a perfect eirtight repair. After the plug is placed in the the the Workman removes the push-rod E go and then draws gently on the cord 1) until the stem of the plug reenter-s the tube and its head rests on the innerend ofthe tube. With this done the workman holds the cord 6 tent and draws the tube (3 outwardly until the o5 inner end thereof is flush with the inner side of the tire, afterwhich he turns thetuine and the plug on the inner end of the tube in order to spread the cement well between the plugdiead and tire. He then, while still hold roe 

